How can I run a shell script on multiple VMWare vm's created by terraform module? - bash

Question

I am using this module to spin up multiple vm's on my vmware cluster, https://registry.terraform.io/modules/Terraform-VMWare-Modules/vm/vsphere/1.6.0, and I want to run a shell script on all of the vms after using a null resource. With what i currently have, it complains that the host was not given a string, which makes sense. Here is my null resource:
# main.tf
module "jenkins-linuxvm-centos7" {
source = "Terraform-VMWare-Modules/vm/vsphere"
...
}
resource "null_resource" "vm" {
triggers = {
vm_ips = join(",", module.jenkins-linuxvm-centos7.Linux-ip)
}
# export TF_VAR_root_password=<pass>
connection {
type = "ssh"
host = module.jenkins-linuxvm-centos7.Linux-ip
user = "root"
password = var.vm_root_password
port = "22"
agent = false
}
provisioner "file" {
source = "resize_disk.sh"
destination = "/tmp/resize_disk.sh"
}
provisioner "remote-exec" {
inline = [
"chmod +x /tmp/resize_disk.sh",
"/tmp/resize_disk.sh"
]
}
}
Do I need to use a dynamic block somehow? Or how can I modify host = module.jenkins-linuxvm-centos7.Linux-ip to include all the hosts I want to run it on?

Answer 1

You have to run it in a For_Each loop... Below is an example code where i am looping against the sql_var map variable. you will have to do it against the output of IPs --> module.jenkins-linuxvm-centos7.Linux-ip... you will be able to reference the IP of each machine as something like each.value i guess. I dont know how your output looks like, so guessing. If you are new to loops, here is one nice tuto.
https://blog.boltops.com/2020/10/04/terraform-hcl-loops-with-count-and-for-each
resource "null_resource" "instance" {
for_each = var.sql_var
provisioner "local-exec" {
command = "echo ${each.key} >> hello.txt"
}
}